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Emergency Food Distribution by Jesuit Urumuri Centre for vulnerable families most affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic March 2020 is the time most of East African countries registered first cases of COVID-19 on their home soils. In Rwanda, the

PC:Francis Kokoroko/Reuters The fight against COVID-19 requires concerted efforts that call on every nation to acknowledge its own limitation to playing solo in this endeavor. For a triumph in this battle will only mean that COVID-19 has been defeated on

PC: Transaparency.org La lutte contre la pandémie du COVID-19 ne vise pas tant à enrayer sa propagation qu’à révéler le sens d’un monde dès lors qu’il est porté par la relationnalité. En d’autres mots, on impose le confinement, la distanciation

PC: Greenpeace.org An ancient philosopher, Protagoras of Abdera once said that “man is the measure of all things”; as if to suggest that even the virulence of COVID-19 will have to be assessed from humanity’s standpoint. Indeed, whatever threatens a

PC:cgtn.com In the recent past the world has enjoyed a real boom of the globalization of the market economy through which cross-border interaction and exchange of goods have made the universe a global village. In globalization, we have celebrated the

(PC: Thinkglobalhealth) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable”, says an African proverb and we can rightly contend that humanity will be unbreakable if it stands together in solidarity as it faces the COVID-19 pandemic. The dynamics of international political and

  (mammuth iStock / Getty Images) La force de frappe du COVID-19 est propre à nous faire honte ! C’est un virus, l’histoire s’en souviendra, qui aura pu à la fois paralyser l’économie et mobiliser l’esprit de l’homme. Dans tous

(PC: Gettyimages ) As we endure the hardships of total lockdown in many parts of the globe, it is however judicious to take a look at the way people feel it differently while living in same localities. I recently threw

(PC: ET) Currently, a number of countries have imposed total lockdown in the bid to halt the spread of COVID-19. A category of citizens who are well off have resorted to packing their stocks with all kinds of goods; but

(PC: American Magazine) S’il est vrai que le Christ est maître (Jn 13,13), que tous les hommes sont convoqués à le suivre (Mt 28,19), s’il est vrai qu’il s’est identifié aux derniers de la société (Mt 25), alors la foi

(PC: Shutter Stock) Every era has its ills but no tragedy has shaken us before at least in the 21st century than the pandemic of COVID-19. With the advancements of technology and science we would have hoped to find a

(PC: Washington Post)   With the outbreak of COVID-19, we have quickly become aware of how fleeting our peace and happiness can be, and vulnerable our life is essentially constituted. For a privileged few, social network mediums have compelled a

PC: (AFP or licensors) In my home area, a handshake, a hug, or a tap on someone’s shoulder used to be viewed as most tangible expressions of welcome, affection, and friendship; and the absence of the above were considered counter-cultural,

(PC:REUTERS/Maggie Andresen ) L’humanité est en guerre, une guerre qui ne dit pas son nom, une guerre mondiale. La situation actuelle touche chacun et nous débarque tous dans une lutte contre le coronavirus ; ce que n’a pas fait les précédentes